She would have made a good, loving wife.

I did honestly and truly love her, and I think often, often of her now." Mr.Herndon has said that the love and the death of this young girl shattered Lincoln's purposes and tendencies.

"He threw off his infinite sorrow only by leaping wildly into the political arena.

He needed whip and spur to save him from despair." The period of Abraham Lincoln's boyhood and youth had closed when he stood by the grave of Anne Rutledge.

He had long been a man in stature.
He was now a man in years; yet the rough path he had been forced to travel had made his progress toward maturity painfully slow.